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Boston Smashes Monthly Snowfall Record: This Is What It Looks Like Right Now

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For some it may have been the hottest year on record (if only with the use of seasonally-adjusted, well, seasons). For Bostonians, the past 30 day stretch has just smashed all-time monthly snowfall records.

 

Just another 15 inches of snow, and this will be the all-time highest snowfall season in Boston history:

 

Add the furious windchill and resulting coastal flooding, and Boston is desperate for some of that infamous global warming

 

Below are various other photos of what Boston is dealing with this morning after the latest snowfall, which the locals are calling the Blizzard of 2015: Round 2:

 

What is causing all this atmospheric havoc is the latest Winter Storm to slam the Northeast: Neptune, which as the Weather Channel summarizes, "delivers a triple threat of snow, high winds and bitter wind chills to areas still struggling to recover from a series of major snowstorms virtually unprecedented in modern times."

Here are the key things you need to know about Winter Storm Neptune right now:

  • Low pressure is offshore of coastal New England and is pulling northward toward Nova Scotia.
  • Widespread wind damage occurred Saturday evening due to high winds along and behind the arctic front accompanying Winter Storm Neptune; structural damage has been reported in the Carolinas, and more than 200,000 customers lost power Saturday evening.
  • Neptune has already brought up to 8 inches of snow to parts of Michigan. Lake-effect snow is lingering over parts of Upper Michigan and northwest Indiana, with winter storm warnings and advisories in effect.
  • In the Northeast, blizzard warnings continue for parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine. These warnings include the Boston metropolitan area.
  • Parts of Massachusetts have already seen up to 22 inches of new snow.
  • High wind warnings continue from southern Connecticut to western North Carolina, including New York and Washington, D.C. Sunday.

Winter Storm Neptune's impact will be magnified by a large field of strong winds, even in areas outside the heaviest snow, and a sharp drop in temperatures that will lead to dangerously low wind chills in the wake of the storm.

 

This comes on the heels of an almost three-week snow siege that has smashed records in parts of New England, including Boston and Worcester. Much of that snow is still on the ground due to a prolonged cold snap, and that snow will compound the misery from this storm as Neptune's winds blow not only the new snow, but snow already on the ground.

 

The forecast timing and potential impacts are below the radar image. Check back with us at weather.com and The Weather Channel frequently as we update this forecast.

What is most odd is that for many in the Northeast and around the Great Lakes - one of America's primary economic hubs - the winter of 2015 has been far, far worse than the sporadic "Polar Vortex" of 2014. And yet, not a peep about how the "inclement" weather is about to result in an annualized $80 billion of lost economic output, which is what the weathermen, pardon, economists want the world to believe is what caused the economic swoon of Q1, 2015. That's ok, though: we have the West Coast port strike to blame for that in a few short weeks.

 

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Sun, 02/15/2015 - 12:52 | 5786940 FreeShitter
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Fuck that shit, im sitting here in my 1984 Van Halen T shirt and cargo shorts here in Texas.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 12:59 | 5786962 Stroke
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71 degrees & sunny on the space coast............Please Northerners It's all good

 

\Please stay where you are

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:07 | 5786995 Unix
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UGH! My arse is so cold, I'm thinking about getting in the microwave in defrost mode!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:24 | 5787057 rccalhoun
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O wants every american to UPS one cubic foot of snow to save the sierras

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:44 | 5787098 Manthong
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This is just part of God’s righteous punishment for them having inflicted Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank on the USA.

 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:45 | 5787137 Greenskeeper_Carl
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chalk another record breaking winter to global warming. err, sorry, climate change.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:06 | 5787441 Thirst Mutilator
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Mary Jo Kopechne is still available as a ZH username.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:11 | 5787452 Zero_Head
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"snowfalls will soon just be a thing of the past" East Anglia University, 2000

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:53 | 5787595 Eeyores Enigma
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Just went camping up here in the Cascades. Not a sign of snow except on the tallest peaks. 65 degrees shorts and Tees. Up till 11 oclock playing poker around the campfire with shorts and hoodie. Had lunch up at the summit next day, people walking around shorts and flip flops got into the 70s in Sisters. Driest Warmest winter in anyones memory.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:07 | 5787638 jbvtme
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pole shift or weather modification?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 17:07 | 5787797 clymer
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As a resident of Middlesex County, I can attest to the images above. I am out in the boonies a bit (north-central MA), and use a tractor with a 60" snowblower on the three-point hitch to throw the snow (this way I can spin around and use the front-end loader for moving the snow banks).

Just heard on the scanner that the local farm stand collapsed with power still on so it's a spark show.

I know Al Gore, the New World Order Carbon Whore would dispute this weather as a fluke, but with the wind chills below zero it looks and feels like we are heading into a new ice age out there.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 20:12 | 5788320 Chuck Norris
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Thank goodness for Global Warming.

I mean, if we didn't have such warm temperatures Boston would be -50 degrees and under a THOUSAND inches of snow. 

Pay your carbon taxes now, bitchez

 

 

 

 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 20:23 | 5788343 armageddon addahere
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Don't worry Al Gore will never mention it, or admit it exists.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 17:17 | 5787836 dirty belly
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No snow in the Cascades means trouble this fire season.  Vegitables in the garden are still green and growing.  Strawberries have taken over most of the garden area.  Ants and spyders are emerging and the roses are starting to bud.  We did get large amounts of rain and still socked in at night in the Willamette Valley with fog.  Oh, look, the sun is coming out!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 19:01 | 5788138 A Nanny Moose
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Fire season? Pfft. The Round Fire is buring right now near Bishop, CA. Not a common occurance for February.

Seems fire season is starting early....perhaps never ended.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 17:20 | 5787844 J in Vegas
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Las Vegas pushing close to 80 degrees today. Word!

Mon, 02/16/2015 - 01:11 | 5789048 Clashfan
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Here in Georgia, I don't recall a colder late fall and winter so far. We haven't had too many extremely cold days, but we've had many fewer warm ones than normal. I'm talking about thirty years or more that I've lived here. Oct, Nov, Dec, January have been colder, overall, imo, than they ever have, and Feb is bringing more freezing temps nightly.

Global warming is BS. Time everyone wised up to this huge lie used to force world government on us and to aid the worldwide war against the middle class.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:10 | 5787637 Save_America1st
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Personally, I'd like to take this opportunity to give my sincere gratitude to Al Gore and the rest of the Global Warming lobby for this.  Your lies and endless harping about the melting of the snow caps, the helpless polar bears with no icebergs to float on, the falsification of global termperature data, fear mongering about so-called "deadly" levels of CO2 being higher than .0035% of our atmospheric composition, and countless scams and schemes to tax every human being on the planet for breathing air...all this has been an outstanding success story in reversing the deadly, vicious specter of "Global Warming".

You all and your psychotic lies have truly been an inspiration and you have made yourselves the saviors of our planet, for without you we never would have had another winter and no more beautiful flakes of snow to play in and shovel from our driveways at these historically record high levels. 

-40 degree tempteratures would be a thing of the past without you all. 

You even succeeded in altering the solar cycles of our dearest star, the Sun, and have saved the planet from turning into a desert wasteland like Mars.

If Al Gore hadn't invented the internet he and his netowork of fraudulent scientists and their puppet masters of the New World Order never could have succeeded in creating and solving the deadly concept of Anthropormorphic Climate Change.

We all owe them our gratitude and yes, our very lives as well for enlightening us about our irresponsible ways of exhaling CO2 when we breath and for teaching us all that our very survival by which we must breath oxygen supplied by plant life which in turn needs our CO2 to live and produce more oxygen for us to breath has been just plain, discusting selfishness on our part all these millions of years.

Clearly, taxation of our breathing and banning CO2 as a toxic element in our atmosphere was a stroke of genius that has saved us all from doom and most certainly total extinction. 

We all owe Al Gore, the media, our political masters and their Hollywood puppets our lives, fortunes, and our first born children as a human sacrifice at their altar of salvation:  Al Gore's Malibu mansion

Al Gore's beachside mansion couldn't exist today if he hadn't saved the planet from the rising oceans.  There would be no more ice at the north and south poles and the ocean would have risen up and flooded the entire world, and yes, also Al Gore's mansion...all 12 of them.  And all his private jets would have no more land to land on or take off from. 

And to ensure our species does not drown from melting icebergs or exhale more CO2 than the plants can use to survive on, I think we must never stop paying carbon taxes to the super elite or once again we may all burn to death and drown at the same time from our misbehavior and selfishness.

We must continue to fund the elite 1% with all we can contribute to them so that they can continue to protect us all from ourselves and fly around the world in private jets and live in massive mansions and give themselves awards for creating winter once again for all of humanity.

And please also thank them for saving the polar bears. 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:39 | 5787730 Unix
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America1st...all I have to say is Brilliant! 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:26 | 5787067 Headbanger
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WTF are those pussies bitching about!

That's fantastic snowmobile weather you mooks!

So fuck it! Let's ride!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:41 | 5787349 Unix
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I'm your Huckleberry! I HATE the fucking cold!!!! I'm too fucking dumb to move south I guess!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:52 | 5787391 Oldballplayer
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Too much snow to ride.  Cannot get to the trails.  Too fricking cold today. 

 

Maybe in a couple of days.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:54 | 5787776 TheReplacement
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Too much snow, yes.  Too cold?  Hah, never.  I do admit that gloves are needed on days like this.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 19:03 | 5788152 willwork4food
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Gloves, heated body armor, a 4x4 truck and a 25 year old body rather.

Oh, and a case of beer by the fire.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:32 | 5787086 OpTwoMistic
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They don't have the weather channel there.  Global warming is a bitch.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:58 | 5787192 Nick Jihad
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Another perfect day in SoCal. But the taxes are very similar to Massachesetts. ;-)

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:46 | 5787368 Bananamerican
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Perfect except there is absolutely no snow on the mountain range and its HOT...
Another year of drought on deck at this point

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 19:51 | 5788280 OldPhart
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Yep, 84, Sunny and no humidity.  It's why I'm still here in Commiefornia.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:15 | 5787027 El Vaquero
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It's been hitting the upper 60s and lower 70s here for the past week.  I actually don't like it.  It means my fruit trees are going to blossom early, then, as is typical for here, get hit by a freeze.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:23 | 5787055 yrad
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Come on down to Texas where the sun is warm and the women are tall!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:39 | 5787342 rejected
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I'm married to a Texican... They're mean!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:25 | 5787286 in-Credible Banker
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Sitting indoors in Buffalo, NY.  A pleasant -4 F outside as I type this.

 

2 more years and the kids graduate high school and I can leave this arctic wasteland.  I don't want to piss away 2 years of my life but wish that day was here RIGHT NOW!

 

 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:21 | 5787678 Took Red Pill
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That and you have the Buffalo Bills, too! Feel bad for you!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:34 | 5787535 3Wishes
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Keep your Global Warmng

I think its not !.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:53 | 5787770 TheReplacement
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Being that I live north of Boston (in another country practically) I can tell you that the snow outside my backdoor is deeper than I am tall and I am not Napolean.  It sucks because we are running out of places to put it all and icedams are threatening roof damage.  Still, I love the temps as I am a man of the north.  Screw Texas and your lack of water and abundance of Mexicans.

Gonna go brew some more beer - Drake's IPA this time.

 

 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 20:36 | 5788369 metaStable
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As a fellow new hampshirite, I sympathize. Need to shovel the deck off 30" of powder before it goes kaput but it is too freaking cold out there. On the positive side, I can hit the slopes in my backyard this year!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 22:19 | 5788685 sun tzu
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Mexicans are headed your way too. 

I've never turned on the tap and water didn't come out. Funny how I keep hearing about a lack of water.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 12:53 | 5786945 wendigo
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Boston deserves everything it gets.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:16 | 5787031 OverTheUnder
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Including a Superbowl Victory

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:16 | 5787033 spoonful
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There's a reason why the American Revolution started here.  We're the toughest souls around.  Go take your surfboard and sit in the ocean waiting for a wave to come.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:40 | 5787087 wendigo
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Toughest souls? If so, why did they allow their city to be put under martial law?

I'd take one redneck over 20 of you. Rednecks actually know how to get shit done

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:44 | 5787135 spoonful
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I went for a run that day, but there are many more people on the streets in this blizzard than there were out that day. Our spirit has been broken by non-stop brainwashing and propaganda.  I watched with horror as the tanks rolled down Commonwealth Avenue and people were cheering them as heroes for attempting to massacre an unarmed teenager.  I guess we used to be the toughest.  Point well taken. 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:24 | 5787687 Took Red Pill
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I felt the same way. All that military show of force for one teen age boy. After he was caught, the people lined the streets waving flags. Where did all those flags come from anyway?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 19:05 | 5788160 willwork4food
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They were left over from Al Gore's invention of the internet celebration.

 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 17:08 | 5787812 Crash Overide
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I have witnessed redneck first hand and those bastards are Custard's last stand when the Orwellian jack boots come marching in.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:43 | 5787129 kill switch
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Go shelter in place...Before I give you a slap!!!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:02 | 5787201 Max Cynical
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Bostonians are used to being forced to stay inside.

They'll get through this...just pretend two kitchen utensil bombers are running around town.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 18:19 | 5788005 TwelveOhOne
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I recently read that one of Steven Spielberg's earliest movies was blowing up pressure cookers.  Yeah, here it is, in his biography, the words "pressure cooker" start off page 9, so scroll up slightly for the beginning:

"But the topper may have been the special effects: 30 cans of cherry pie filling cooked in a pressure cooker until the lid blew off -- instant gore!"

https://books.google.com/books?id=SwkUdUXRA_kC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=steven+...

They re-use too much, like those 2008 photos that were recently presented as "evidence".

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 20:44 | 5788387 metaStable
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Accuweather 03049 zip code. Real feel -28 now dropping down to -40 tonite.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:44 | 5787134 Alvin Fernald
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Do you count among the toughtest those waving the US flag after being forced from their homes?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:47 | 5787145 Greenskeeper_Carl
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yep. I ve never seen a more pathetic display in my entire life. An entire city cowering in their homes from some unarmed 19 year old, and actually cheering the fascist police state on and calling themselves 'boston strong'. What a bunch of pussies.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:01 | 5787197 overmedicatedun...
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one year the snow did not melt, the ice did not go away..then sickness and starvation ruled the land..the cold was constant and wind did not abate..civilization moved ever south then the wars of invasion from the northern lands, . We do not know how the last Ice Age started how quickly it spread the ice sheets but we do know that ice ages of past were longer than warming periods inbetween. enjoy your weekend.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:25 | 5787295 Unix
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yay, the climate changes, imagine that?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:11 | 5787455 Oleander
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1816 was the year without a summer. Frost killed the summer crops. I hope the snow melts and the soil dries out so we can plant in the fields this year.  Cannot imagine dealing with frosts in July.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 18:01 | 5787961 JuliaS
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All life on this planet is carbon based. CO2 is the main building block of everything alive. Plants being at the beginning of organic food chain benefit from abundance of carbon dioxide and prefer high temperature. Greenhouse effect is good for plants. That's why we grow plants in greenhouses. More plant life means more food for life of all kinds - faster circulation of nutrients.

Climate change is good as long as the earth is warming. It opens up new and uncultivated areas of the planet. More places to live. More places to grow food. And if, indeed, humans are the cause of CO2 increase, I say, put the pedal to the metal, so that we make this place as warm as it can be, so that the next time the mini-ice age arrives, we've got enough buffered heat to glide right past it.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:37 | 5787331 rejected
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That was the second saddest (sickest) thing I have ever witnessed in my 66 years. Then the 'authorities lied about the 19 year old terrist capture!  They lie about everything, and these idiots believe their every lying word!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:14 | 5787241 Unix
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You were pretty tough, but you succombed to communism, too bad really!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:58 | 5787405 Lumberjack
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Maine and the American Revolution

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h557.html

 

The residents of Maine, farmers and shipping interests alike, were adversely affected by new British policies following the victory over the French. Reaction to the hatedStamp Act was not confined to Massachusetts and New York; the residents of Falmouth (later Portland, Maine) rioted and attacked customs agents attempting to implement use of the stamps.

Later, the Tea Act turned out to be as unpopular in Maine as it was in Boston. Residents of York staged an imitation of the Boston Tea Party by burning a tea-laden ship in their harbor in 1774.

Following Lexington andConcord, hostilities commenced in Maine. In 1775, British ships shelled Falmouth, causing massive destruction. The first real naval encounter occurred off Machias in June 1775 and ended with Maine forces capturing the British cutter Margaretta. In addition, a large number of Maine men accompaniedBenedict Arnold on his ill-fated march to Quebec in the Canadian campaign.

 

 

 

One of the most disastrous naval engagements of the war occurred at Castine, a small coastal village in the eastern portion of Penobscot Bay. The British had taken the village in 1779 and erected Fort George. In what has been called the PenobscotCampaign, naval forces from Massachusetts sailed into the Bay to oust the British, but failed to capitalize on their temporary superiority. British relief ships soon arrived, forcing the American fleet to flee. In order to keep these ships out of British hands, the Americans set them afire.

 

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Oh, and that flag from Maine that flew over Bunker Hill...

http://www.nelma.org/lagniappe/kings-broad-arrow-and-ewp/

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:16 | 5787244 rum_runner
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The marathon bombings too, asshole?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 12:56 | 5786949 clade7
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If you ever see a snowblower up on a roof, you got some serious Global Warming going on!...

 

I'm opening a snowmobile dealership in Miami!  Who's with me!  Thank you Algore!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:58 | 5787190 Unix
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I'm definately IN!!! where do I sign up...heh!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 12:57 | 5786952 Seasmoke
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This winter is already Worse than 2014 winter......yet not a sound about damage to economy ????

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 12:59 | 5786959 Unix
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What? No polar vortex to blame this year, bwahahahahahahaahaaaaaarg!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 12:57 | 5786954 Unix
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Global Warming, stop driving your S-UU-Vays immediately -- Your government!

In addition, stop posting the truth on the internet, it's too truthy -- YOUR GOVERNMENT!

I bow down to their superior intellect!

ok ok /s if I really have too!!!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:33 | 5787090 ClimateWarrior
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What has the government to do with global warming?

Better ask SCIENTISTS.  You will get the best response possible.

 

And BTW warmer temps --> more moisture --> more snow!

 


Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:48 | 5787149 Alvin Fernald
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Ask David Keith the infamous geoengineering scientist what he thinks of controlling the weather with aerosols.
Then ask him how much $$ he gets for being Sauron's bitch.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:49 | 5787155 Clarabell
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The trouble with SCIENTISTS is that you can buy and sell them like crack whores. Want something proven scientifically, put up the funding and they'll provide it!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:23 | 5787167 Unix
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bwahahahahahahahaaaaaarg warrior

And you stated: And BTW warmer temps --> more moisture --> more snow!

I didn't know it could snow with warmer temps, you sir, are a moron...take your twisted logic to huffnpuffcompost

noaa is govt run and the scientists report what they are told to report you retread!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:46 | 5787370 ClimateWarrior
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I thought ZH readers can do more thinking than that. 

Do you also like Alex Jone's conspiracies? ;-)

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:33 | 5787714 Unix
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LOL, no but I guess you do, where is your tin foil hat? did you just come on here to show your ignorance or what?

Mon, 02/16/2015 - 01:28 | 5789074 Clashfan
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Alex Jones is a solid reporter with a good team. Tell me one of his stories that you find false.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:54 | 5787172 Greenskeeper_Carl
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so let me make sure ive got this straight: colder winter temps with more snow= global warming. Also, warmer temps with more snow = global warming. warmer summers with lots of hurricanes= global warming. also, cooler summers(unless the temps are 'seasonally adjusted') with nearly zero hurricane activity= global warming. or, since it isnt really warming anymore, we will call it climate change. But either way, your arguments are always "heads I win, tails you lose"

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:15 | 5787473 cavedigger
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Uh..I thought it takes cold air to make snow as well, and the global warming crowd said it would all be gone by now. But I guess it's ust too complicated for me to understand. It's really counterintuitive, isn't it? As it gets warmer it actually gets colder. Maybe that's why they changed the religion from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change".

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:24 | 5787686 Yao
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Not according to your buddies at the New York Times. They called the "end of snow" a year ago.  Try to keep up.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:00 | 5786955 Haole
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Some people are going to be begging for "global warming" that hasn't happenned in almost two decades, if this current cooling trend continues.

Next step, global cooling to be blamed on anthropogenic activity.

 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:04 | 5786982 Unix
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Well, back in the 70's they were calling for a mini-ice age! Climate is going to do what climate does best - - CHANGE. Ain't no amount of man made stuff gonna change that!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:57 | 5787186 massbytes
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Who is "they'?  And how does anything anyone says in 70's affect reality?  And just why can't anything "man made" change the climate?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:11 | 5787213 Unix
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oh boy, do I have to explain every thing to you, go ask Al Bore, he'll fill you in. They are the phony oligarchs who want to carbon tax you to death.

There is a little disk in the sky, natural methane gas seepage and volcanoes and that my friend affects climate the most! Human activity affect is about .000002%, not enough to do what the climate worshipers say.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:52 | 5787592 massbytes
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.000002% is only by your grade school math.  Try again.  You are a complete fool on this climate thing.  Man can and is influencing the climate.  And your use of Al Gore (as if he matters about anything) is just an indication you don't really know much about anything on climate.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:30 | 5787705 Unix
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right then, off with their heads, you're so smart...

Mon, 02/16/2015 - 01:30 | 5789077 Clashfan
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Actually, human activity in the form of geoengineering, weather warfare, HAARP, etc can do a lot to modify the climate. And it's been going on for decades.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:15 | 5787237 Max Cynical
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"Well, back in the 70's they were calling for a mini-ice age!"

TIME Magazine Archive Article

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663607/posts

Another Ice Age?

Jun. 24, 1974

In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection.

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.

 

Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere—thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved.

Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.

Climatic Balance. Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate. Indeed, it is to gain such knowledge that 38 ships and 13 aircraft, carrying scientists from almost 70 nations, are now assembling in the Atlantic and elsewhere for a massive 100-day study of the effects of the tropical seas and atmosphere on worldwide weather. The study itself is only part of an international scientific effort known acronymically as GARP (for Global Atmospheric Research Program).

Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.

The earth's current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries—the U.S., Canada and Australia —global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row."

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:20 | 5787266 Unix
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Thank you Max, I rest my case!

To all the global ice age, er, global warming, er, climate change worshipers, YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT!

How do you like them apples?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:30 | 5787704 Yao
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So ... from the 1940s to the 1970s we experienced human-induced global cooling (cured by environmental regulations natch).  From the 1980s until now we're told that we've experienced human-induced global warming.  Seems rather self-evident that the cure for our present ills would be to roll back environmental regualation to circa 1940 levels so that we can resume our previous human-induced cooling.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:05 | 5786987 TCA
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Yep.  This warming trend we;ve experienced over the past century is completely cyclical and the cycle has turned.  I can't wait until twenty years from now when human-caused global cooling is all over the news.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:36 | 5787099 ClimateWarrior
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Hasen't happened in almost 20 years. Really?

 

http://www.realclimate.org/images/hiatus.png

 

So again, no global warming?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:10 | 5787226 Unix
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NASA, LOL, you mean the space agency, who now is negotiating with the muslims for world peace, ya right, got it...

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:50 | 5787381 ClimateWarrior
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NASA, NOAA, MET Ofice, Japan Meteorological Agency, and pretty much every National Acadamy of Sciences. 

But you know better ;-)

 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:28 | 5787697 Unix
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best science money can BUY, for the carbon tax don't ya know...it's lemmings like you why I shake my head in disbelief, ugh

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 17:01 | 5787798 epicurious
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You might consider the possibility that GLOBAL WARMING really is a matter of opinion not fact at this point.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11367272/Climategate-the-sequel-How-w...

Mon, 02/16/2015 - 01:42 | 5789092 Clashfan
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TY epicurious. One of the best pieces that I've yet seen on the forged data.
I get some great info from ZH threads. You guys rock.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 12:58 | 5786957 TCA
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64 here in AZ.  Getting ready to go cycling.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:02 | 5786971 Unix
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you bastard!!! i'm freezing my tits off!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:07 | 5786994 ThankYouSirMayI...
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Please use proper English it is 'Tities'

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:09 | 5786999 Unix
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My bad Alfred! I sit here frozen corrected!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:40 | 5787344 Bastiat
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Did you mean "titties" or "tighties"

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:55 | 5787401 kill switch
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I'll chime in.....73 here in central Florida....Moved here 9 years ago from New Hampshire..

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:19 | 5787041 El Vaquero
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52 here now.  The low was 32, and it'll probably get up to around 70ish today.  Gotta love the large daily temperature swings in the high desert;)  Anyhow, I've got some work to do in the garden this afternoon.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 12:59 | 5786961 Winston Churchill
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Where is Quackmeister when you need a punching bag ?

No doubt he would have something stupid to say about frostbite being the result of AGW.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:04 | 5786980 Bollixed
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Oh, you laugh now, but when all that snow melts and causes the sea level to rise by 2 feet Al Gore will be vindicated.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:10 | 5787004 Unix
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Al Bore can KMA!!! 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:05 | 5786984 massbytes
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This is all very normal. 60s - 70s here in Colorado....in February.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:20 | 5787269 Jack of All Trades
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Actually 60s in Colorado in winter is not abnormal at all.  Colo has high standard deviation in temps.

 

Denver 60s yesterday; snow today.  Typical Colo. weather.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:01 | 5786964 Unix
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guy on the roof with a snowblower is CLASSIC i tell ya, CLASSIC!!!! i hope he does not tear up too many shingles, his insco may cancel his homeowners policy!

 

HEY, I could finally dunk one on that rim!!!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:21 | 5787274 Lumberjack
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I'm here on the South Shore of Ma and had to clear my roof twice in 2 weeks, now I have to do it again with more snow predicted tuesday..... I don't need a ladder to get on it anymore and was planning to put a new roof on this spring. I used to live near the former Loring SAC Base in Northern Maine and know what real snow and cold is. This is getting to be a bit much though here in Ma.. This is not climate change or globull warming. it's just a typical (PITA) old fashioned winter. Time for a beer.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:35 | 5787333 Unix
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I don't envy your position, BTW, how the hell do you get a snowblower on the roof to begin with? and don't tell me carefully LOL

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:16 | 5787472 Lumberjack
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My guess is that after roof raking the last 2 storms the snow piled up high enough to drive it on. I shit you not. I took my grandson to hockey practice friday and the front entrance to Bavis Arena was a 10 foot deep trench, 100 feet long going to the front door. Rockland won the snow lotto last storm.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:01 | 5786970 TCA
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If you look at the temperature data from the Vostok ice cores, you can see that we're at peak global temperatures.  Couple this with the fact that global temperatures have stabilized since about 2000, we are in for another global cooling trend which will eventually become another ice age.  Hope you all enjoyed global warming because we'll all be pining for it in another fiffty years!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:03 | 5786975 Unix
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I must remember to fart more!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:11 | 5787012 imapopulistnow
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Don't worry, i got that covered

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:13 | 5787021 Unix
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Thank you my good man! I gotta eat more beans...

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:10 | 5787007 AchtungAffen
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Oh Yankees, can't get their head out of their regional ass. If they only saw arctic ice sheets, or Antarctic land glaciers, or glaciers around the world, or tropical diseases, flora and fauna spreading farther from the equator, or record storms in the Pacific, or, well THE REST OF THE FUCKING WORLD. Or even if you saw what's happening with the weakened atmospheric jet stream in the northern hemisphere which is causing the record cold. Well, if it snows where Yankee is, then it has to be the case for everyone and everything else in the planet I guess. American exceptionalism they called it?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:12 | 5787015 Unix
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pfffft, please kneal at the altar of Al Bore! You are boring me!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:24 | 5787059 disabledvet
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Yeah, no one is talking about Canada.

"Storms all stop in Biston."

Population expulsion in nine months?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:49 | 5787156 Unix
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I believe it's bahh-sten...

Where are they going to expulse the population to?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:03 | 5786974 Meatballs
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We're mid Cape. I'll tell you what it looks like- Out. of. control. Out local plows are pick ups, it's a joke.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:27 | 5787071 disabledvet
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Everything is AWESOME!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:42 | 5787125 DutchBoy2015
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yes its called winter.   I remember 50 years ago living in Michigan it was normal.  now it makes headline news instead of reporting real news which FOXCNNABCCBSNBC love to avoid,

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:10 | 5787225 Chief Wonder Bread
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good point, local channels love this shit.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:20 | 5787264 rum_runner
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Did you not even read the title?  "Yes, it's called winter."  Miss the part about record-setting winter?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:33 | 5787531 Lumberjack
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But everything has been over built/built up without forethought of dealing with large snow events. I am certain that Mich/Maine ane other cold locales do quite well now. Pissing money away to cronies putting up windmills turned

out to be a really bad idea.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:30 | 5787519 Lumberjack
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We have been lucky the last 5 years with only one real storm that knocked my power out for a week 2 years ago. I was running a loader for a friend plowing malls but after no snow for 5 years it wasn't worth it and the loaders were sold. Wish I had a 950 or 980 CAT right now.... A John Deere 544 would be a nice one too.

If anyone out there has loaders or other large plow equipment and needs work, call any Massachusetts contractor and I am sure you will get plenty of work.

 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:04 | 5786978 KenShabby
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"Mr. Peepers" - Lol.

 

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:06 | 5786989 Kprime
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It's gonna take lots more carbon taxes to make the NE coast feel warm and fuzzy

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:06 | 5786990 Monetas
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Snowfall up .... homeless street presence down .... Global Warming .... that's a good one !

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:47 | 5787750 mt paul
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if the homeless

are building igloos

 

come spring will they be

the iglooless....

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 18:16 | 5787998 GeezerGeek
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igloos in springtime = a pretty liquid market

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:07 | 5786992 silverer
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No matter what happens, it's essential that the government does not let citizens make any decisions in regard as how to handle this.  After all, they know how they vote.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:07 | 5786993 Vincent Vega
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We snow jobbed some folks.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:09 | 5787002 Babaloo
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It was a frigid 88 at my house yesterday.  That's the punishment we get for living  in the socialist bastion of Kalifornia,

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:11 | 5787009 Unix
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Well...at least you have that! How do you deal with all of the fruitloops out there is the question!?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:25 | 5787063 Terminus C
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Yea, and he can have a cool drink of water to refresh himself... oh wait...

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:35 | 5787093 knukles
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Actually, no more "fruit loops" out here than anywhere else.  Just ask Charlie Manson's bride

http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/stargazing/art...

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:43 | 5787133 Unix
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Damn knukles, now I'm gonna have to scratch a swastica on my forehead now? shit...

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:11 | 5787010 petaloka
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It's so cold here in New York that Governor Cuomo has his hands in his own pockets.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:11 | 5787011 Boondocker
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Wearing shorts and a tee shirt...82° expected high....you don't have to live in the snow people, it's a choice.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 16:12 | 5787651 Lumberjack
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There are some who love the winter, ski/snowmobile/drink/boat/ fish/hike climb or whatever. I will add that those personal delivered hot tubs are the cats ass....

 

http://www.birches.com/winter/rentals/personal-hot-tub-rental/

 

What could be better than after a day of sledding/skiing etc. than sitting on an 80,000 acre lake with friends in a wood fired hot tub... Northen lights flaring up and crystal clear brilliant star covered sky.

I will personally recommend The Birches and stay there from time to time myself. Check em out sometime.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 18:12 | 5787989 GeezerGeek
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Even better if it can be used to time-travel.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:12 | 5787013 s2man
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I grew up in Chicago and lived in Northern Michigan where we we got 14' of snow each winter (it packs down to about 4' deep).  So, what's the big deal? Get a snomobile or skis and have fun.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 18:15 | 5787994 GeezerGeek
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Barry signed an executive order recently: having fun is no longer permitted.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:16 | 5787034 rudyspeaks
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Hey twits, this IS global warming! More accurately called "chaos" which, outside the Right-wing echo chamber, is what occurs when you goose the climate with more energy. Jeez, the same sh-theads who greet every drought and heat wave with the disclaimer "you can't blame individual weather occrances on climate change" (which is correct) then jump on every snow storm as proof that it doesn't exist! I'd say that you can't have it both ways, but that would assume you have a memory which is a fantasy. Remember "cigarettes cause cancer" (which tobacco co.s now admit)...took you loons 30 years! How about "Reaganomics"? Boy, did THAT ever pay off the Nat'l debt...I could go on, but why...

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:21 | 5787048 655321
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Awesome! No matter the weather, hot or cold, wet or dry, it supports global warming theory.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:37 | 5787105 knukles
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Of course.  It's the Paul Krugman problem/solution.  WFT => MOAR
Also called syllogistic logic as in misapplied sophist bullshit.

 

The Mae West Quantity Theory:

If some is good
And MOAR is better
Then way the fuck too much is just about right

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:41 | 5787120 Unix
Unix's picture

Keep it pithy knucles...love it!!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:43 | 5787131 booboo
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(In my best Al Gore voice) Yea you twits, it's called "chaos" don't you know man. It's like Gumby science, you can make it be anything you want by jerking off the data points and manipulating or even changing the temp readings in selected geographic locations. I'm serial. But don't tell your parents because older people just don't understand the things that youths do, I'm serial!!!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:39 | 5787110 Unix
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Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, your kind words of inspiration to all right wingers is much appreciated, keep up the good work! Too bad you've been led astray by the progressive moonbats! Please do not go on, the drivel you just spewed was way more than you needed to say.

 

Having said that, maybe huffnpuffcompost is a better suited site to amoebas like yourself?

Please do have a nice day in your unicorn shitting skittles utopia!!!

 

BTW, this is a libertarian leaning site, so maybe you are pissing up the wrong rope here.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 13:53 | 5787170 Meatballs
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Pretty sure they changed that shit to "Climate Change". Keep up, would you?

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:38 | 5787337 Bastiat
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We need unlimited government power to fight climate change until it is eradicated!!

The future of mankind depends on it.

NO CHANGE!

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:47 | 5787578 shovelhead
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Keep it up, buddy...

That kind of talk is gonna cost you a few carbon credits.

Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:04 | 5787181 Emergency Ward
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